Chapter 2

Question 1

An error that causes a program to display an error message and exit.

Answer 1

runtime

Question 2

An error that causes a program to do the wrong thing, but not to display an error message.

Answer 2

semantic

Question 3

Perform the operations in an expression in order to compute a value.

Answer 3

evaluate

Question 4

A special word used to specify the structure of a program.

Answer 4

keyword

Question 5

One or more lines of code that represent a command or action.

Answer 5

statement

Question 6

A name that refers to a value.

Answer 6

variable

Question 7

A graphical representation of a set of variables and the values they refer to.

Answer 7

state diagram

Question 8

The operator used to access a function or variable in another module.

Answer 8

dot operator

Question 9

A file that contains Python code, including function definitions and sometimes other statements.

Answer 9

module

Question 10

A value provided to a function when the function is called.

Answer 10

argument

Question 11

A statement that assigns a value to a variable.

Answer 11

assignment

Question 12

Run a statement and do what it says.

Answer 12

execute

Question 13

An error that is detected while the program is running.

Answer 13

exception

Question 14

Text included in a program that provides information about the program but has no effect on its execution.

Answer 14

comment

Question 15

A statement that reads a module file so we can use the variables and functions it contains.

Answer 15

import